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The computer voice on next Trek TV series - actor

jefferiestubes8

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The computer voice is an audio interface program designed to allow computers to express information verbally.
The computer voice on most Federation starship and fixed installation computers has been portrayed by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry since the early days of the original series (with the exception of some early TNG episodes).
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Computer_Voice

With Majel Barrett-Roddenberry deceased which actor will become the computer voice for this next Trek TV series?
I was unable to find the actor's name on imdb who did it for the Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and the Star Trek Beyond (2016) movies.
From a thread started in 2008 and an idea AviTrek brought up in it in 2013:
Who should voice the USS Enterprises computers?
I wonder if there are enough recording samples of Majel Barret as the computer that they could use a computer to sample her voice.
For CBS Television to build a library of computer voice words is is major project. It is not impossible but it takes time. If they start on it now they will have a very usable voice library of samples for Star Trek XII.
We're talking thousands of hours of computer voice session recordings.

If all of Majel Barret's recordings for TNG, VOY, ENT were done on digital audio tape (DAT) then surely they could sample them all and use a voice-to-text speech recognition program to create full transcripts from which to create the database from.
What do you guys think? Use whatever actress that vioced Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and the Star Trek Beyond (2016) movies or get a soundalike voice actor?
 
I don't recall the Enterprise computer saying anything in Into Darkness. The Vengeance computer was voiced by Bill Hader, but I know that's not what you meant.

As for my pick...it'll depend on what the direction of the show is. :)
 
There's this actress named Jo Anne Worley who has some really similar vocal characteristics to Majel Barrett.
She did the voice of the Wardobe in the Disney Beauty and the Beast.
I actually thought it was Barrett until I looked it up.
 
Seriously though, Marina Sirtis or Nana Visitor. Marina did the computer voice in a few episodes of Star Trek Continues and it sounded pretty good, although the computer suddenly having an English accent was a little jarring.
 
If sampling and using existing clips of Majel's voice (like jeffriestubes8 suggested) won't work:

Sigourney.

Of course, Sigourney!
 
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